Volumetric LED Chandelier

This project was created in collaboration with IB5k for Verizon's booth at a trade show in Las Vegas. The "chandelier" uses two webcams to capture viewers' silhouettes, and translates those silhouettes into light – a different color on each side. When nobody's present, the chandelier's custom software uses the noise in ambient light to create a glittering blend of the two colors, beckoning attendees into the booth.

The piece is two meters (six and a half feet) tall, and uses 36 custom-built LED tubes. Each tube has 60 pixels, for a total of 2,160 individual points of light. Custom Max/MSP/Jitter software maps the live video feed into the physical shape of the chandelier, cascading images away from the viewer on each side.

C2 Montréal

For the May, 2017 edition of the “C2” festival in Montréal, I worked with the Center for Data Arts to develop a creative workflow and a suite of software experiments. The goal was to generate a live visualization of the ideas being discussed in C2’s multiple venues, and by creating much of the functionality on-site in real time at the event, we were able to tailor the experience to the specific character of the festival.

The Embryo Digital Atlas

*description from paulvill.github.io*The Embryo Digital Atlas is an open-source, web-based platform to visualize complex experimental datasets of embryogenesis in an easy and beautiful way. Embryogenesis is the process by which a single fertilized egg is transformed into a multicellular organism. It is studied in various model organisms, from the sea urchin, to the fruit fly, to the zebrafish, to the chicken, to the mouse, to the human! Many mechanisms are conserved across species, this is why it is useful to study and compare these processes in the various models. Images have an important role in these studies, mainly because this is such a complex and intricate process that researchers first need to be able to describe it comprehensively.

Embryogenesis is at the heart of the public debate about stem cell research and genome editing. In addition, it is a source of inspiration for engineers, designers and architects interested in how a complex structure can emerge from simple units. The aim of The Embryo Digital Atlas is to make public datasets of embryogenesis easily accessible for an audience ranging from curious citizens, to students, to professional researchers.

Hideaway Circus

Reflex

Veritas Tutors / Zinc Educational

Graphic, website, iOS and UI design

Ocean Music

album + print media design ("songs from the city" illustrations by Bene Rohlmann)

Howl Backpack

This backpack was a gift for writer Naomi Krupitsky Wernham. I worked with leatherworker Aixa Sobin to construct the backpack itself – she gave me the raw leather, I etched the poem into it, and she sewed it into the shape. The whole bag is made from a single piece of leather, so the poem reads continuously around the pack.